- 2009 - Slavery by Another Name. (that doesn't sound like there are rainbows and bunnies.)
- 2008 - The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews (no bunnies or rainbows here either
- 2007- The Looming Tower: Al-Quaeda and the Road to 9/11 (pass)
so I think lets skip back a ways.
- 1993 - Lincoln at Gettsyburg: The words taht remade America (hum, four score and all that bore.
- 1991 - Tha Ants (No idea about this one)
from wiki for "The Ants" Review: "The only professional science work to have won a Pulitzer Prize -- for general nonfiction in 1991 – The Ants
Pass
- 1980 - Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid - Again from the Wiki On its surface, GEB examines logician Kurt Gödel, artist M. C. Escher and composer Johann Sebastian Bach, discussing common themes in their work and lives. At a deeper level, the book is a detailed and subtle exposition of concepts fundamental to mathematics, symmetry, and intelligence.
Pass
- 1973 - Children of the Crisis - I am thinking no bunnies here either.
So this is what I have decided, I want a new literary award given, to a book, maybe 2 awards non fiction and fiction. This is what i require from my books, 1. They're entertaining. 2. They invovle hope or at least are devoid of it.
- For example, I've only read 2 of Cornwell's scarpetta books, and despite the fact that they involve crime and murder and a myster and stuff, 1. the bad guys lose in the end. 2. You finish them and don't have to think the world if messed up.
- Even Stephen Kings books usually end with some sense of things will be okay, for example the shining. In the movie that everyone has seen, the dad kills the helpful hotel guy, but in the book that guy doesn't die.
- clive barker - I read the great and secert show a while back and while it is a story of good versus evil, in the end it seems like good is better, although I read that years ago, so what I know.
Anyway, anyone know any books that are both entertaining and are not just sad?
5 comments:
"Godel, Escher, Bach" is the only book in your post that I've ever heard of and NO, I've not READ it! "The Ants"? Seriously?!
I just finished "Signal and Noise" by John Griesemer. It was an epic undertaking for me, and I'm still wondering if I even liked it.
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